Political-Social Movements: Revolutionary: Syria

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Revolutionary
movements in twentieth-century
Syria
have been a platform for women's demands for emancipation and
access to political power. However, even when they have captured control
of government,
these movements have not revolutionized women's legal,
economic, or social status, primarily because of the weaknesses of the
Syrian state and economy, and the strength of conservative opposition
movements.

The 1908 Constitutional Revolution fostered a new politics of citizenship
in
Syria
and across the late Ottoman Empire. Elite urban women mobilized as…